Hello, Space Unicorns! This month, the fabulous Liz Argall created a special comic for the editorial, featuring Hugo the Cat!
FABULOUS NEWS, SPACE UNICORNS! HAPPIEST OF DAYS!!! FIFTEEN Uncanny Magazine stories are on the prestigious 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List! WE ARE SO THRILLED! Congratulations to all of the authors!
Best Novella:
“The Giants of the Violet Sea” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
Best Novelette:
“Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard
“Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” by Fran Wilde
“That Story Isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell
“Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim
Best Short Story:
“If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark
“The Wishing Pool” by Tananarive Due
“Proof by Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte
“Immortal Coil” by Ellen Kushner
“Presque vue” by Tochi Onyebuchi
“A House Full of Voices Is Never Empty” by Miyuki Jane Pinckard
“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker
“Thirteen of the Secrets in My Purse” by Rachel Swirsky
“How the Girls Came Home” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
“The Sin of America” by Catherynne M. Valente
ALSO! Congratulations to Uncanny Magazine Managing Editor/Poetry Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu! Her novelette “And for My Next Trick, I Have Disappeared” is on the list! PLUS! Congratulations to Uncanny Magazine Nonfiction Editor Meg Elison! Her short stories “The Pizza Boy” and “The Revolution Will Not Be Served With Fries” are on the list!
This means you can vote for these stories in the 2022 Locus Poll and Survey which determines the Locus Awards! Voting is FREE TO ALL! Along with these stories, Uncanny Magazine is also eligible for a Locus Award in the Best Magazine or Fanzine category, and Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas are eligible in the Best Editor—Pro or Fan category! Vote for the things you liked, and you can even write in things that didn’t make the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List! YOUR VOTE ALWAYS COUNTS!
Space Unicorns! It is time to announce the TOP STORY in our Uncanny Magazine 2021 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll!
It is…. *drumroll*
A TIE!!!
The TOP SHORT STORIES are:
“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker
“The Sin of America” by Catherynne M. Valente
Congratulations, Sarah Pinsker and Catherynne M. Valente! SNAZZY CERTIFICATES will soon be on the way!
The rest of the Top Five are:
2- IS ALSO A TIE!!!
The novelette “That Story Isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell
The novelette “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” by Fran Wilde
3- The short story “Proof by Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte
4- The novelette “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim
5- The novelette “Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard
Congratulations to John Wiswell, Fran Wilde, José Pablo Iriarte, Caroline M. Yoachim, and Aliette de Bodard!
Thank you to everybody who voted!
Hugo Award nominations are now open! If you are an eligible member of DisCon III or Chicon 8, you should already have your membership and voting information so you can start nominating online!
This year, Uncanny Magazine is still eligible for the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are also still eligible for the Best Editor (Short Form) Hugo Award. (Note: If you are nominating the Thomases in this category, please continue to nominate them together. They are a co-editing team.)
You can see all of the eligible Uncanny Magazine stories and their appropriate categories here!
And now the contents of Uncanny Magazine Issue 45! The phenomenal cover is Habitation by Paul Lewin. Our new fiction includes Maureen McHugh’s pandemic tale of survival “The Goldfish Man,” Miyuki Jane Pinckard’s exploration of grief and very good dogs “Boundless,” Shaoni C. White’s dreamlike coming-of-age story “The Kaleidoscopic Visitor,” Carlos Hernandez’s journey to the undiscovered country “I Will Have This Diamond for a Heart,” “The Path of Water” Emma Törzs’s fairy tale of roles and memory, Stephen Graham Jones’s story of mystery during a hike “Flowerkicker,” and Margaret Dunlap’s examination of toys and childhood “Requiem for a Dollface.” Our reprint is Richard Butner’s “Under Green” which originally appeared in The Adventurists (Small Beer Press) in 2022.
Our provocative and compelling essays this month include the “Ask a Unicorn” column sponsored by our Kickstarter Year 8 backers, “Acknowledging Taiwanese-American Vampire Foodies” by Jo Wu, “Resisting the Monolith: Collecting As Counter Narrative” by Rebecca Romney, “Wax Sealed With a Kiss” by Elsa Sjunneson, and “An Invitation to the Weary” by Sarah Gailey, and Nonfiction Editor Meg Elison’s editorial “The Yearning Body Problem.” Our gorgeous and evocative poetry includes “Irreconcilable Differences” by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, “Omonhinmin” by Praise Osawaru, “Jingwei Tries to Fill Up the Sea” by Mary Soon Lee, and “A Wreckful Planting of small Pockets of Thirst” by Nnadi Samuel. Finally, Caroline M. Yoachim interviews Miyuki Jane Pinckard and Emma Törzs about their stories.
The Uncanny Magazine Podcast #45A features “The Goldfish Man” by Maureen McHugh, as read by Erika Ensign, “Irreconcilable Differences” by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Maureen McHugh. The Uncanny Magazine Podcast #45B features “I Will Have This Diamond for a Heart” by Carlos Hernandez, as read by Matt Peters, “Requiem for a Dollface” by Margaret Dunlap, as read by Erika Ensign, “A Wreckful Planting of small Pockets of Thirst” by Nnadi Samuel, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Carlos Hernandez.
As always, we are deeply grateful for your support of Uncanny Magazine. Shine on, Space Unicorns!
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